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...conscientious objector who has presided since 1938 over Glasgow as Lord Provost (mayor) of Britain's most radical city. In a career of laird-baiting he has come to consider himself an expert on such families as that of the young Duke of Hamilton, on whose estate Rudolf Hess landed unexpectedly last month. Sir Pat claimed last week to have the lowdown on the Hess case. The "genuine truth," as he revealed it to a War Weapons Week audience in Fifeshire...
...British opinion is divided about Rudolf Hess. But Ambassador Winant believes he fled in fear of his life, as the German military forces took more & more power, and old Nazi politicos like Hess were forced to take a back seat...
...British still had not got their Hess story straight last week. From somewhere in Scotland a U.S. newsman cabled that he could watch Rudolf Hess as the No. 1 Nazi Abroad gazed from his hospital window across the highland heather. Parachutist Hess, he heard, was a cheery fellow, ready at talk with the nurses, quick in praise of the mountain scenery...
...week's official hush and hesitancy brought no further explanation of the Hesscapade. The celebrated riddle-did Hess seek peace with the British, or peace from Hitler?-had already vanished into the back pages. The Nazis called the affair closed, though rumors of arrests in Germany persisted. If the British had found the answer, they kept it to themselves. Winston Churchill declined to make a statement. Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair simply denied that the boxing, flying Duke of Hamilton, whom Hess said he came seeking, had even corresponded with Rudolf Hess...
Some of their remarks: > Dr. Foster Kennedy of Cornell: "Hess may have set out for the Duke of Hamilton because he thought a duke could do what Churchill could not-bring about peace. The Germans are such awful snobs. [Hess's flight] was merely a return to normality . . . a desire to escape from the asylum [Germany] in which he has so long been confined. . . . . His activities must be considered as those of a perfectly sane man." > Dr. Gregory Zilboorg of Manhattan: "Hess may have a megalomanic-paranoiac trend. Hess's profound devotion to Hitler over so many years...